Saviours of the Nation: Serbia's Intellectual Opposition and the Revival of NationalismAn examination of the trajectory of Serbia's dissidence, from its origins in the 1950s to its consolidation in the early 1980s around the defence of civil and human rights. Yugoslavia's breakup in 1991 and the wars that followed in its wake have been widely blamed on Serbian nationalism. Most analyses, however, have not examined this nationalism in the years before Slobodan Milosevic's rise to power, when its principal articulators were opposition intellectuals. Jasna Dragovic-Soso asks why this strong and apparently democratic opposition movement subsequently turned towards an extreme form of nationalism and had by the end of the 1980s accepted Milosevic's undemocratic policies. Based on the author's extensive primary source research and interviews with key protagonists, Saviours of the Nation examines both the causes and the consequences of the opposition's transformation into a nationalist force. High-lighting the role of historical context, it argues that three main factors contributed to the intellectuals' elaboration of a radical nationalist ideology: abandonment of cultural Yugoslavism in conjunction with the post-Tito crisis of the state, difficulties in solving the thorny Kosovo question, and relationships between the dissidents and their Slovenian counterparts. |
Contents
Acknowledgements page | 1 |
The Forging of Serbias Intellectual Opposition 37 | 13 |
The Outburst of History and the New Serbian | 64 |
the Second World War revisited | 100 |
Intellectuals and Kosovo 19858 | 115 |
National Interests in Conflict | 162 |
Memorandum of the Serbian Academy | 177 |
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Albanian argued Association of Serbia Belgrade intellectuals Belgrade intelligentsia Bulatović Committee communist constitutional critical intellectuals Croatian Croats cultural Danas debate Defence of Freedom democratic dissidents Djilas Djukić Dobrica Ćosić Drašković Dušan East European emigration ethnic federal Freedom of Thought genocide Goli Otok historian historical Horvat human rights Ibid ideological independent intellectual opposition intelligentsia interview Isaković journal Jović Književne novine Kosovo question Kosovo Serbs Kosta Čavoški liberal Ljubljana Ljubomir Ljubomir Tadić March Marković Martinović Matija Bećković Memorandum Mića Popović Mihailo Marković Milošević Montenegrin Naša reč National Programme national question nationalist Nova revija organisation Partisan Party pitanje political Politika Popović Praxists Predrag president province regime represented republic Selenić Serbian Academy Serbian intellectuals Serbian leadership Serbian national Slobodan Slobodan Milošević Slobodan Selenić Slovenes Slovenian intellectuals Slovenian National Slovenian Writers socialist Society South Slav Tadić Tito Tito's unity Ustasha Vojislav Vojislav Koštunica Vuk Drašković Yugoslavia Zagreb
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